I love my Mom because my Mom loves me.

I just saw one of those cute little posts that people are always sharing pictures of this time of year.
One of those little forms that kids fill out about their mothers. I love my mom because....
This kid put I love my Mom because my Mom loves me.
Isn't that so true about how we often love people. Our safe people are the people we know love us, no matter what.  The people we know as fact, love us.
We don't know it just because they say it either. We know it because they show it. Day after day, month after month, year after year.
It's just hitting me a little this morning. We all have our safe people. Even safe people can be hard. Yet we still keep going back. {hopefully we keep going back.} Specifically you return because of the welcome it is inevitable you receive.
I think about that in our relationship to the Lord as well. If you know that He loves you, why wouldn't  you keep going back? Feeling some prodigal son y"all.
We get angry at the people that we know are safe, because we know being angry at them does not change the way the exist for us or the way we exist for them.
They are still going to love us, even if we screw up, even if we are angry, or say mean things.
The people specifically I am talking about are Moms and the Lord. I am not drawing an equivalency only a comparison. Within the sanctity of those relationships;it's ok to have those emotions, ones that aren't always socially acceptable.
I think when we do that with Lord, because it's a when, am I right y'all? We beat ourself up How could we possibly react that way to such a perfect love? How could we get angry,  or ask questions about that love?
The Lord knows us, He knows us our hearts, He knows this whole concept that I am just scratching the surface of. It means He also knows that when we get angry, and ask questions about his love it is because He is a safe place for us. Letting the Lord be a safe enough place to wrestle with those emotions is a good thing.
It's not a bad thing to ask Him questions.
As a mother I pray my boys always talk to me about everything, I pray they always ask the good, the hard, and the crazy. I pray I am always a safe place.
The Lord wants to hear from his children. He knows the questions in our heart already.
I think we live in this culture, that says be happy all the time, be upbeat, don't show negative emotion.
But heyooo, God created the full spectrum of emotion. The whole gamut, and as Imago Dei, I am created in His image. He has created these emotions for my good.
He knows when we feel the emotions that aren't as socially acceptable or even justifiable. Yet He still desires for us to come back to Him.
That's something that is also true in motherhood/parenthood/healthy partnerships. Why does my kid act this way around me and no one else? It is because we are a safe place. Even in the moments when being that safe place is hard, we still want to be that for our children. We are the people who get to teach our kids how to healthily deal with those emotions, and not just shove them inside.
We serve a good good Father who wants to be that for us too on a much large and more intimate scale.
I love my Heavenly Father because He always loves me.

Psalm 91:1-2
Psalm 46:1
Psalm 32:7
Psalm 4:8
Nahum 1:7
Proverbs 18:10
Psalm 62:2

Psalm 91:4

1 Corinthians 13:7
1 Peter 4:8
Romans 13:8
Proverbs 17:17
1 John 14:16-18